Games and resources in my 2013 classroom

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This is just a running list of resources to help me with planning and for reference next time I am setting up a classroom for this grade.

Spelling games and resources

Words Their Way

Blends and Digraphs (LNA Spellers)

Five "Follow the Path" beginning blends/digraphs games with 29 ch, sh, th cards (printed from WtW CD) (One laminated, others in manila folders)
Blending and extending cards "at" and "ag"?
S-blend bingo, (LNA blends, WtW p158) 6 gameboards, sl, sk, st, sm, sw, sn
Gruff Drops Troll at Bridge (LNA, WtW page 158) A3 gameboard, 16 cards
Word Family Go Fish (WtW page 164, LNA games)
  • Word families in Go Fish: et, en, an, at, op, ot, og, ut, ug, un

Long Vowel Spellers

Memory/concentration cards: long i, long o, long a?
Spelling board games with six boards
Beat the Elephant and Beat the Frog (gave these to Ange for 1/2 classes I think)

Rhyming Bingo (emergent stage, WtW page 114)) Four 3x3 gameboards

Long/Short O, Long/Short I, Long/Short A concentration (14 cards each game)

Flip It (long and short vowels, CVCe, add an "e" extension) 10 incomplete word cards, 50 word cards, Short/Long/add an e, ok as is, drop the e cards

Miscellaneous resources

Snap cards from Usborne: Fairy Snap, Monster Snap, Robot Snap,
- for playing snap and for writing descriptions of the characters on the cards

Maths

Mathsphere "Four Star" - five instructions, seven gameboards

Clear the Big Board game boards
Ten frames - laminated empty ten frames
Lots of MAB especially tens and ones
Hundreds charts - colouful poster and lots of photocopied black and white versions
Unifix cubes
Counters - large and small, many colours
Rulers (great for doing addition and subtraction up to 30)
Dice set "Tutor Education Comprehensive Polyhedra Dice Set"
  • Ten green 12-sided dice (1-12)
  • Ten black 10-sided dice (0-9)
  • Ten 20-sided dice (1-20)
  • Ten 8-sided dice (1-8)
  • Ten white 10-sided dice (1-10)
  • Various other operators and six sided dice in different colours